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The FIDE Zonal 4.4 Chess Championships are being held in Accra, Ghana. Round 1 got underway and saw all the favourites win except for on boards 12 and 15 where the unrated players from Liberia upset their opponents with a win.

Asian Nations Chess Cup 2016 is taking place March 28 – April 5 in UAE. Here are the live games from the women section of the event, for the men section visit this live broadcast

Asian Nations Chess Cup 2016 is taking place March 28 – April 5 in UAE. It features top Grandmasters including GM Bu Xiangzhi, GM Wang Yue, GM Adhiban, GM Wei Yi, GM S.P. Sethuraman, GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, GM Sasikiran Krishnan, GM Lu Shanglei, GM Salem A.R. Saleh, GM Zhou Jianchao, GM Rinat Jumabayev, GM Murtas Kazhgaleyev, GM Anuar Ismagambetov, GM Eshan Ghaem Maghami, GM Rustam Khusnutdinov, etc.

Report by Jamie Kenmure

Chess superpowers China and India easily won in the opening round to share the early lead with other favorites in the Asian Nations Cup Chess Team Championship organized

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 6 to 8 May 2016 in New Delhi, India, by the All India Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

Sergey Karjakin is going to the FIDE World Chess Championship Final 2016 in New York after winning the Candidates Chess

The US Virgin Islands Chess Federation is the host for the 2016 edition of the CARIFTA Chess Championships. For those of you who don’t know where the US Virgin Islands is, it is about 60 kilometres east of Puerto Rico and immediately west of the British Virgin Islands.

Report by Jamie Kenmure

The General Assembly of the French Chess Federation that was held on 26th March voted to remove Diego Salazar from the post of the Prsident, The Chess & Strategy reports.

First the President’s report has been rejected with 635 votes against, 290 for and 57 abstentions. The financial report was rejected with similar majority 656 against, 173 for, 185 abstentions.